March 28, 2009
It could have been any of the popular media, world-wide, talking about any celebrity, it just happens that I saw this on the front page of yahoo today:
“J Lo’s fashion disaster.  The typically glamorous superstar’s bizarre, unflattering pants make for a style fiasco.” 

At first sight, all it said to me was that the person who wrote it must have very low self-esteem, so much so that their only recourse is to trash other people.  But thinking for a few seconds longer, and understanding the deviant minds of media people, it was more likely to be aimed at appealing to the untold millions who suffer with low self-esteem.  Perhaps it is comforting for them to know that even the beautiful people are not always so beautiful.  The questions are: does comfort solve the low self-esteem problem or just prolong it, and in whose interest is it to prolong it?  

It could have been any of the popular media, world-wide, talking about any celebrity, it just happens that I saw this on the front page of yahoo today:

“J Lo’s fashion disaster.  The typically glamorous superstar’s bizarre, unflattering pants make for a style fiasco.” 

At first sight, all it said to me was that the person who wrote it must have very low self-esteem, so much so that their only recourse is to trash other people.  But thinking for a few seconds longer, and understanding the deviant minds of media people, it was more likely to be aimed at appealing to the untold millions who suffer with low self-esteem.  Perhaps it is comforting for them to know that even the beautiful people are not always so beautiful.  The questions are: does comfort solve the low self-esteem problem or just prolong it, and in whose interest is it to prolong it?  

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